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December 14, 2006

'New' lashings

John Thurman's book 'Pioneering Principles' (which I wrote about earlier and you can get here) describes 5 types of lashing for the first time.

2 of these have become widely known 'alternative' lashings- the Japanese lashing and the Filipino lashing.

He describes 3 others that have remained fairly obscure, but are nonetheless pretty useful. Here are excerpts from the book describing these new lashings:


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